First Chromosome-Scale Assembly and Deep Floral-Bud Transcriptome of a Male Kiwifruit

Jibran Tahir; Ross Crowhurst; Simon Deroles; Elena Hilario; Cecilia Deng; Robert Schaffer; Liam Le Lievre; Cyril Brendolise; David Chagné; Susan E Gardiner; Mareike Knaebel; Andrew Catanach; John McCallum; Paul Datson; Susan Thomson; Lynette R Brownfield; Simona Nardozza; Sarah M Pilkington

doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.852161

First Chromosome-Scale Assembly and Deep Floral-Bud Transcriptome of a Male Kiwifruit

Front Genet. 2022 May 16:13:852161. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.852161. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jibran Tahir¹, Ross Crowhurst¹, Simon Deroles¹, Elena Hilario¹, Cecilia Deng¹, Robert Schaffer¹, Liam Le Lievre², Cyril Brendolise¹, David Chagné³, Susan E Gardiner³, Mareike Knaebel³, Andrew Catanach⁴, John McCallum⁴, Paul Datson¹, Susan Thomson⁴, Lynette R Brownfield², Simona Nardozza¹, Sarah M Pilkington¹

Affiliations

¹ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand.
² Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
³ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Manawatu Mail Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁴ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Lincoln, New Zealand.

No abstract available

Keywords: PacBio and illumina sequencing; long read genome assembly; male kiwifruit genome; male—genetics; sex determining region; transcriptomic of male flower; whole-genome sequencing (WGS).